This patchset introduces swap accounting to cgroup2.
This patch (of 7):
In the legacy hierarchy we charge memsw, which is dubious, because:
- memsw.limit must be >= memory.limit, so it is impossible to limit
swap usage less than memory usage. Taking into account the fact that
the primary limiting mechanism in the unified hierarchy is
memory.high while memory.limit is either left unset or set to a very
large value, moving memsw.limit knob to the unified hierarchy would
effectively make it impossible to limit swap usage according to the
user preference.
- memsw.usage != memory.usage + swap.usage, because a page occupying
both swap entry and a swap cache page is charged only once to memsw
counter. As a result, it is possible to effectively eat up to
memory.limit of memory pages *and* memsw.limit of swap entries, which
looks unexpected.
That said, we should provide a different swap limiting mechanism for
cgroup2.
This patch adds mem_cgroup->swap counter, which charges the actual number
of swap entries used by a cgroup. It is only charged in the unified
hierarchy, while the legacy hierarchy memsw logic is left intact.
The swap usage can be monitored using new memory.swap.current file and
limited using memory.swap.max.
Note, to charge swap resource properly in the unified hierarchy, we have
to make swap_entry_free uncharge swap only when ->usage reaches zero, not
just ->count, i.e. when all references to a swap entry, including the one
taken by swap cache, are gone. This is necessary, because otherwise
swap-in could result in uncharging swap even if the page is still in swap
cache and hence still occupies a swap entry. At the same time, this
shouldn't break memsw counter logic, where a page is never charged twice
for using both memory and swap, because in case of legacy hierarchy we
uncharge swap on commit (see mem_cgroup_commit_charge).
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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